As time wore on, the wife seems to have made the assumption, most favourable to herself, that the exchange appropriate was mint par rate, and accordingly to have treated herself as entitled to £450 in respect of the 9,000 marks, which, together with the £12, amounted to £462; and this is the first of the sums which the plaintiff seeks to recover.

The lower species point is obtained by deducting the cost of transferring gold from the mint par of exchange.

The mint par between these two countries was pound, one of England + 4.866 dollars of America.